British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

SD 66 NW TATHAM

2/78 The Green and farm building
4-10-1967 adjoining to east (formerly listed
as The Green (Upper House))

GV II

House, 1672. Sandstone rubble with tile roof. 2 storeys, formerly with
attic, and with one bay on each side of 2-storey gabled porch. Drip course
over ground-floor windows. The ground-floor windows, formerly of 4 lights,
have a central chamfered mullion flush with the wall, a chamfered outer
surround, and an inner surround with a channel chased around the openings.
The right-hand one has had its sill lowered. The 1st floor windows have
double-chamfered surrounds and hoods. The 1st floor window of the porch
has a channelled stone surround and a hood. The outer bays have blocked
3-light attic windows with stone surrounds, possibly added when the roof
pitch was lessened. The door has a moulded surround with shaped lintel
inscribed: 'REB 1672'. End chimneys have round shafts on square bases. To
the right is an addition, probably C18th. On the ground floor it has a
window with plain stone surround and central flat-faced mullion. On the
1st floor there are 2 windows with plain stone surrounds. Door, at left,
has plain reveals. Further right is a wide barn entrance with external
doors and a shippon door with plain reveals. At the rear of this addition
is a re-set lintel inscribed: 'TWE 1714 [?]'. Inside, the original house
has a fireplace with segmental arch in its right-hand room. The left-hand
room has a beam which could have been a firehood bressumer.


Listing NGR: SD6418567878

Source: English Heritage

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